Happening now the amachron wave is still very much on the rise here in the United

States as experts warn the surge won't peak anytime soon but the CDC is struggling to give Americans clear guidance

with Dr. Whelensky admitting in a new interview she hasn't communicated the

uncertainty of the for nearly 11 hours. We'll have more information on the gunman, his motive,

and what finally brought the awful ordeal to an end.

And on this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,

the late civil rights leader's family is urging Congress to pass President

Biden's Voting Rights Bill, but the legislation is stalled in the U.S. Senate with one key Democrat

warning the White House House that the bill is now on life support.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington and this is a Situation Room special report.

We begin with our coverage right now of the Amakron surge now posing new challenges right now for the nation's public health officials.

CNN analysis finds Americans would need to avoid more than 80% of the public

if they were to follow CDC guidelines after leaving their five-day COVID isolation.

Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohn is

joining us right now. Elizabeth, is it really feasible to expect people to be

able to avoid such a large portion of the American public.

So Wolf, the experts that I spoke to said they don't think it's feasible.

And these are folks who are friends of the CDC, who have worked with the CDC for many, many decades.

So basically what the CDC is saying is that if you meet certain criteria, you've got COVID, you've recovered, you don't have a fever your symptoms are getting better you can get out of

it out of isolation after five days and be out and about in the public but this is a big

but you have to avoid certain people.

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